The Marxist Analysis of ‘the Wave’ in Sports Stadia
Perfesser Dave at a Blue Jays game, photo courtesy a kindly Yankees fan. Below: Exhibition Stadium – the cheap seats are at left, directly behind centre field! Below that: Thomas…
2011
A Leaky New Year
Anonymous has cracked into Stratfor. What’s that? It’s a Shadow CIA that kept customer’s credit card info unencrypted and allowed mysterious “Robin Hood Hackers” access to millions of sensitive emails.…
NDP leadership and New Politics
Since the election in May I had high hopes for the NDP. The party had achieved two major breakthroughs. The first becoming the official opposition and the second being the…
Brian Topp Sinks to a New (Conservative) Low
What was it that most attracted people about the NDP campaign in 2011? Was it that we offered a social democratic alternative to the hard edged ideology of Stephen…
Jamaican party endorsing gay rights wins election
Former Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller swept back into office Thursday as preliminary results of the national election showed her People’s National Party (PNP) winning 41 of the 63…
Facts Schmacts! Paulie Continues to Play Fast and Loose With the Truth: Part III
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Our fears of airplanes, and terrorism
Many of us have a fear of flying; it ranges from a mild discomfort to a paralyzing fear. For the most part, this fear is not rationally founded. On a…
2012 Crystal Ball Blog, Part 1: Canadian Politics
Well, it’s that time of year…time to dust off my crystal ball, and make some predictions about the upcoming year that I can write about again next December and discuss…
Ron Paul pisses off everybody.
That’s the one thing I like about him (and the youth, too – besides the no more wars and no more criminalization for dopeheads.) Then again, look a little closer.…
Dec. 29: Hey! Donne-moi un break…
The story leads the NewsToday section. The American Council on Science and Health tells us that fracking is not a threat to health. Isn’t that nice? And the council is…
Cops Behaving Badly: Death by pepper spray
Florida police bound, gagged and pepper-sprayed a mentally ill man until he died. Interestingly, this was reported by FUX Snooze, in a non-snoozing mode for a change. Let’s hear Megyn…
The Perfect Vagina
The perfect vagina from heather leach on Vimeo. A hard-hitting documentary on an extreme form of plastic surgery and the physical and emotional damage it is doing to women and…
Home again home again jiggity jog
So is there anything cute than a kid playing in the snow? I think not. But then, I am biased.
Little girl rails against pink stuff and gender stereotyping | rabble.ca
Check out this insightful commentary from a little girl who refuses to be pigeonholed. Filed under: Progressives
"When we pick a president, we are in fact choosing a minister of God"
I didn’t write that. This idiot did.
Wrong on Education
Before addressing editorial writer Norbert Cunningham’s concerns about the dropout rate at Canadian schools, let’s look at the actual data. Here are the statistics from Human Resources and Skills Development…
Open Internet Supporters Fight Back
Connie Fournier and Quincy Lam aren’t what you would call conventional activists. When the Conservative Government promised to introduce invasive, costly, and warrantless online spying legislation they decided to fight…
Canada trails USA in risk awareness
Canadian media doesn’t provide much detail but ProPublica, the American non-profit doing fine investigative reporting, is examining dangers of gas and oil production through hydraulic fracturing. In an earlier article…
2012 corporate tax cuts in the spotlight today
Good question posed here: “Will 2012 corporate tax cuts fuel or weaken Canadian economy?” The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the cuts, which Flaherty’s office claims will take most…